Dude, you heard wrong 
I believed what you hear is about the legend of Tiger Hong that
take place in the 70s. He is the RSM of the Bn which those days we
address them as 'King of the Parade Square' Rank WO I (Warrant
Officer class 1).
In those days, no one is allow to walk or cut across the parade
square unless during drill lesson or Parade and ceremonial event.
There was this CPT (1 of the OC) who walk across the square and
spotted by Tiger Hong. He address the officer and salute him and
thereafter ask the OC to remove his CPT rank, conduct a inprompto
extra drill lesson for abt half an hour. When completed, he ask the
officer to put his rank back and salute him again. After that
incident, the CPT was impressed by him and respect his guts and
professionalism and wrote a strong recommendation letter to convert
Tiger Hong to a officer (LTA).
Ironically... when he was a warrant officer, he was well respected
but as a LTA... mine! there are lots of them in the Bn... 
